How to Use thump in a Sentence

thump

1 of 2 verb

• The boat thumped against the side of the pier.
• The hearts of choir members have been found to thump as one.
  — Time, 18 Nov. 2019
• The bass from the club continues to thump in the background.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 12 June 2023
• Applause, at the end, came in the form of paddles thumped against hulls.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• After a body thumped against the floor in the darkness, Fromming relit the lamp and surveyed the scene.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
• By this point, my heart thumped and my palms grew clammy.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2023
• Patrons young and old danced to thumping music that drowned out the chatter in the room.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• At the opening on Wednesday, a D.J. thumped out dance music to the waiting crowd.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• And Ragland could be called on to continue that run-thumping role.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 24 Oct. 2019
• Catcher Tanner Smith had the loudest hit in the eighth, thumping a grand slam to left.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
• The air was filled with cigar smoke, champagne spray, thumping music and team chants.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• But to have him at Fenway Park caused his heart to thump, left him smiling ear to ear and brought tears to his eyes.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2022
• The song laces a thumping bass line and 808 claps with orchestral loops as SwaVay stomps all over the beat with fiery bars.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 17 July 2023
• The music was thumping, the energy was high, and the bubbly flowed throughout the night.
  — Janice Williams, Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
• The impeachment bassline has been thumping since the day Trump took office.
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 1 Oct. 2019
• But the Beavers clearly are better this year than last, when Oregon thumped them 55-15.
  — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2019
• But, for all of our thumping around, CETI 2 never got close enough to one to unhitch the tagging pole.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The Gulls thumped the third-place Wranglers in back-to-back games last weekend in Calgary, winning 5-0 and 7-4.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
• The dark, thumping cavern of an MRI scanner can be a lonely place.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 9 Jan. 2020
• The intensity Katy played with the whole game against us…it took that thumping to give us a wake-up call.
  — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
• From the beanbag chair the man could hear the little suitcases thump heavily down the stairs.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2022
• Late in the match, Austin thumped two straight aces with speed and topspin that prompted a wide grin from head coach Leslie Jackson.
  — Greg McKenna, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Schwartzman scurried to the ball and thumped a backhand winner down the line, past Zverev’s outstretched arm.
  — Stanley Kay, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• And look for the rabbit who thumps their foot just like Thumper from the 1942 animated classic.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
• All the while, club music continued to thump from inside the building.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2021
• Get ready for a night out, hear music thumping in your ear, yell across the bar for a drink and bump into people on the dance floor.
  — Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• FlyOver won’t leave you in a cold sweat with a thumping heartbeat the way riding on the roof of a gondola might.
  — Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
• Throughout the 90-minute show, the 50-ish musicians hopped, strutted and thumped with all the energy of their younger selves.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 June 2019
• By then the music has changed too, with a thumping, percussive sound.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• On a recent private tour, Eminem and Cardi B thumped out of the boat’s speakers.
  — Harriot Manley, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2019

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thump

2 of 2 noun

• The ball landed with a thump.
• Our hearts racing to the rhythm of each thump of the ball.
  — Molly Nagle, ABC News, 26 May 2023
• Peel hit the kicker, and sailed into the back of the truck with a thump.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• But so far, nothing has drowned out the thump of the bass.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2022
• And most of it with a fist pump, chest thump or a leap into the air.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
• The crack of rifles and the dull thump of grenades announced their progress.
  — NBC News, 26 Dec. 2019
• But then comes a thump that grows to a stomp, and T. rex roars in to break up the party.
  — Mark Washburn, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
• The thump of shelling echoed in the distance along with the chatter of gunfire.
  — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Echo Sub to the mix, which will restore all the missing thump the Dot lacks.
  — Dan Seifert, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2018
• The last Laker to have a playoff game with this kind of thump was 21 years ago, guy by the name of Shaquille O’Neal.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• The first day of full pads arrived at Grand Park on Tuesday with a thump.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
• The thump of artillery rounds exploding in the distance echoed through the trees.
  — The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• The Max puts out a beastly thump, with enough low end to make the neighbors think Janelle Monáe has moved in.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 28 May 2018
• The Chicago Cubs are adding some thump to their lineup.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2023
• The tide was at our knees when my fears shifted from the bottom to dodging loose boards and the thump of salmon.
  — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2021
• The thump of a bird hitting a window is an awful sound.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2022
• The lively rhythms of the street follow the percussive beat of cumbia, the thump of reggaeton, the call to prayer.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Not long ago, John Wright of Fairbanks heard a thump against a window above his deck.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2020
• What did not sound good to me was the thump of Tom’s broomstick under my bed at 5 the next morning.
  — Norman Strung, Field & Stream, 3 Dec. 2020
• The thump of a bird hitting your window is an awful sound.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Apr. 2021
• Let them either respect your rules, or feel the proverbial butt-thump of the door on their way out.
  — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2019
• The result is that kick drums offer a nice thump, while bass guitars are smooth and heavy.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 16 Dec. 2021
• On April 16, Redding heard a thump in the bathroom her brother used.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2021
• Lance went low, but Simmons met him with a vicious thump that stopped him in his tracks.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
• Toronto can shop Justin Smoak to teams looking for thump at first base.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 20 June 2019
• That thump, was the sound of Tasman William Maile's 2-year-old son shooting himself.
  — Matthew Martinez, sacbee, 8 June 2018
• Play it at night, when every creak and thump from the overhead air ducts will scare the bejesus out of you.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• Not only does the tail thump, but the body also rolls evenly from side to side when the lure is rigged on a jighead.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The tailgate of the truck came down with a thump and two English setters stared back at us with equal calm and patience.
  — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
• South Beach Boxing To the thump of the bass, three students pound their fists and slam their feet into their personal 150-pound boxing bag.
  — By Chloe Herring, Brooke Henderson and Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024